It felt like she had just gotten into bed when she heard an insistent tapping at the door. She sprang out of bed, suddenly wide awake. She combed her fingers through her tangled hair as best she could, scraped it back into a quick braid, and went to open the door. When the Cailleach stepped…
As they banked the fire and got ready to leave, Máiréad was watching her friends and realizing that tomorrow morning would be the last time in a long time, if ever, until she saw them again. She watched them chat and put things away and generally just do what they always did but it was…